kardos

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by kardos 10y ago
It seems to me that /one/ open source project would obsolete their efforts. I'd donate to such a project, eg, in lieu of an Intuit donation...
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by kardos 10y ago
So does this mean that we can put to rest the 'trusting trust' paradigm? As in, use 8cc to bootstrap our way into compiling gcc without using gcc?
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by kardos 10y ago
I tried this once to automate a several part procedure. After spending a couple evenings, I decided it is hopeless. make is coupled tightly to building projects, shoehorning non-build workflows into a makefile is both awkward and incomprehe
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by kardos 10y ago
Huh. Right on, it works on mobile and not on desktop... Edit: Turns out HTTPS Everywhere was rewriting it to use https://secure.politico.com rather than http://www.politico.com and that broke the link.
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by kardos 10y ago
Ehh, not really, the cloud is similarly possible without free software. Indeed much of the big name cloud provider's backend software would be in-house anyway. Windows VMs exist too. I guess your point is closer to 'free software
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by kardos 10y ago
"Extremely minimal" is debatable. You could make the same argument for GPS / phone map apps. Yes, of course you could have consulted a map before you left the house. The fact that we no longer have to is the benefit that tech
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by kardos 10y ago
My point was more along the lines of "lets stop repeating the 'give up' mantra" and move forward to "lets explore how we might rectify the situation". But alas you are also right, I did not present a shovel rea
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by kardos 10y ago
Surely it would be useful to check fridge contents remotely while at the supermarket. Is it worth the (present) sacrifice of privacy and security? Imagine a fridge that is both secure and private... would you dismiss the feature then?
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by kardos 10y ago
Broken link
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by kardos 10y ago
> who knew the great battle over privacy would be lost before it even started, because people want their toaster to go online? I really despise this sentiment, it's quite defeatist and comes across as the "resistance is futile&
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by kardos 10y ago
From the thermal photo in the article, it looks like you get the sequence based on the residual heat intensity. Re-using digits would complicate that a bit, but I don't think pressing half of the buttons randomly before entering the re
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by kardos 10y ago
Direct link to PDF without the (infuriating) popups/overlays: http://delivery.acm.org/10.1145/2980000/2978397/p1068-li.pdf
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U.S. House passes bill requiring warrants to search old emails(reuters.com)
5 points by kardos 10y ago|1 comments
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by kardos 10y ago
Well, also it would divide their focus between producing excellent browsers and bureaucratic certificate details. I think it would make more sense to create another non-profit variant of Let's Encrypt for EV certs.
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by kardos 10y ago
Isn't that the case at a gas station too?
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by kardos 10y ago
The windows 10 "telemetry" is not a man-in-the-middle attack, it's a compromised endpoint. You don't know what's in the telemetry -- it's encrypted, and there's no (known) mechanism for you, the owner of t
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by kardos 10y ago
> Sequence of events: <snip> That's a charitable assessment. Microsoft does not get privacy points for reducing a privacy invading program, any more than an abusive person gets credit for abusing less often. A more realistic a
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by kardos 10y ago
Because people have stopped using Windows in droves? What exactly went wrong for them through that mistake?
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by kardos 10y ago
> You're always making more data, it never stops. Well, in one year of monitoring your PC, I've seen your tax returns, documents/photos, countless correspondence samples, countless voice samples, internet browsing history
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by kardos 10y ago
If you can determine a way to intercept the pre-encrypted "telemetry" data, then we'd have the ability to verify Microsoft's claims about what they are transmitting. At the moment, we only have Microsoft's claims, a
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by kardos 10y ago
This comes across as: "Now that we've got all your private data, there's a diminishing return on maintaining a system to collect it again, so we'll go for some positive PR by putting this interface up and let you secure
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by kardos 10y ago
You can disable it, https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/control-whether-firefox... https://support.google.com/chrome/answer/142893?co=GENIE.Pla...
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by kardos 10y ago
In the same vein as the title question: what if we (ie, one of the botnet operators) made all the shitty IoT devices into TOR exit nodes? My guess is that would either (a) incentivize people into securing or discarding them or (b) normalize
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by kardos 10y ago
Last-Modified: Fri, 19 May 2000 20:30:18 GMT Not a bad guess!
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by kardos 10y ago
Sounds like dropbox is best suited to answer your question. Ask them? Edit: This two-in-one example of the perils of relying on free cloud services. Here it's the whims of Dropbox and the immutability of bit.ly/goo.gl links that h
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by kardos 10y ago
I took that to mean he left it in a hotel room while going somewhere, exposing it to any number of maids, possibly including those of a malevolent nature.
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by kardos 10y ago
It doesn't have to, you just have to believe it does...
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by kardos 10y ago
You'll probably have a hard time getting your genius cousin to show up and do your work for you on a consistent basis while you collect the paycheck
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by kardos 10y ago
fdupes is not a problem assuming wikipedia's description [1] is correct: "It first compares file sizes, partial MD5 signatures, full MD5 signatures, and then performs a byte-by-byte comparison for verification." I was unimpre
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by kardos 10y ago
If you had a copy of the two image files from my second link, this 'dupe detector' would erroneously flag one as a dupe. Also, what of truncating the hashes? I don't get why people try to justify using severely weakened thing

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